The Foundations of Lettrism
ISOU, Isidore, Gabriel POMERAND, et al. La Dictature Lettriste: Cahier d’un nouveau régime artistique. Paris: A. Der. 1946.
8vo. Publisher’s wrappers printed in red and black; pp. 79, [1]; wrappers slightly dusty, c. 150-mm chip to head of spine and c. 50-mm at foot; light toning to first leaf, else internally clean; a very good copy.
The first Lettrist publication, and the first and only issue of the journal of the self-proclaimed ‘only contemporary artistic avant-garde movement’, founded by Isidore Isou in Paris in 1946, containing the movement’s founding manifesto.
La Dictature Lettriste (Lettrist Dictatorship) was written collaboratively by Isidore Isou, Gabriel Pomerand, and other Lettrists, but their identities remain uncertain. The title was particularly provocative in the postwar context. This publication holds particular importance in the history of Lettrism for identifying the movement’s original members before they faded into obscurity and were supplanted by the now-iconic names of Dufrêne, Brau, Wolman, Debord, and Lemaître.
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